Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn

male, deceased (1653)
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (August 28, 1612-October 3, 1653) was a Dutch scholar. Born in Bergen op Zoom, he was professor at the University of...
Michael McFaul

Michael McFaul

male
Michael A. McFaul (born 1965 in Montana) is a professor of Political Science and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of...
Johannes Schmidt

Johannes Schmidt

male, deceased (1901)
Johannes Schmidt was a German linguist. He developed the "Wellentheorie" ('wave theory') of language development. Johannes Schmidt was born in...
Ivan Fyodorov

Ivan Fyodorov

male, deceased (1583)
Ivan Fedorov (later changed to Fedorovych), was the father of Russian and Ukrainian printing. He was also a master cannon maker and the inventor of...
Andrew Tobias

Andrew Tobias

male, 62 years old
Andrew Tobias (born April 20, 1947) is an American journalist, author and columnist, whose main body of work is on investment, but who has also...
Karl Verner

Karl Verner

male, deceased (1896)
Karl (Adolph) Verner was a Danish linguist. He is remembered today for Verner's law, which he discovered in 1875. Verner, whose interest in...
Norbert Jokl

Norbert Jokl

male, deceased (1942)
Norbert Jokl was an Austrian albanologist of Jewish descent who has been called the father of albanology. Jokl was born in Bzenec (then Bisenz),...
Etty Hillesum

Etty Hillesum

female, deceased (1943)
Ester "Etty" Hillesum (January 15, 1914 in Middelburg, The Netherlands-November 30, 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland) was a young Jewish writer whose...
Jason Mraz

Jason Mraz

male, 32 years old
Jason Thomas Mraz (born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia, a suburb of Richmond. His...

Jovan Ajduković

male, 41 years old
Jovan Ajduković (Јован Ајдуковић) (b. January 10, 1968, Novi Sad, Serbia) is a Serbian linguist. Jovan Ajduković graduated from the University of Be...